Sutter Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Sutter posts 67% meeting the standard, and 42.5% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 58 | 42% | 67% | -20.6 | 15.8% | 1.5% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Sutter Elementary scores 58 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 79th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🏫 Solid Base — Ask what the school does for a kid who's already meeting the standard with room to spare — steady proficiency across the board doesn't tell you whether the strongest kids are being pushed further.
Most rating sites would stop at “67% proficient” and call it done. Sutter deserves a closer read. It sits at the 79th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 79th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 67% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 74% | 79% | 71% | 63% | 74% |
| Grade 4 | 72% | 81% | 70% | 69% | 64% |
| Grade 5 | 69% | 75% | 67% | 74% | 57% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 78% | 81% | 67% | 72% | 84% |
| Grade 4 | 66% | 70% | 75% | 69% | 66% |
| Grade 5 | 44% | 77% | 72% | 61% | 60% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding falls 16.7pp across grades; the floor slips 17.0pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Sutter Elementary in Santa Clara, 66.7% of white students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 73.2% district-wide and 61.8% statewide. Sutter Elementary trails its district average for white students by 6.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: White students (77.1% Math proficient); Asian students (77.8% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 48 students tested.
8 of 14 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (24.8% vs 14.7%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$712 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 53% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 91
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 87
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 75
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 43 | 47% | 28% | 12% | 14% | 74% | +31 |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 51% | 13% | 11% | 26% | 64% | +19 |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 30% | 28% | 26% | 17% | 57% | +10 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 43 | 49% | 35% | 2% | 14% | 84% | +38 |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 47% | 19% | 15% | 19% | 66% | +24 |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 32% | 28% | 15% | 26% | 60% | +24 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 47 | 34% | 19% | 40% | 6% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | 48 | 66.7% | −7 | +5 |
| Asian | 27 | 77.8% | −1 | +3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sutter Elementary ← | — | 58 | 42.5% | 67.5% | −20.6 | 1.5% |
| Murdock-Portal Elementary | 2.2 mi | 92 | 78.7% | 95.1% | +1.8 | 0.1% |
| John Muir Elementary | 2.9 mi | 90 | 69.8% | 92.1% | −3.1 | 0.5% |
| Millikin Elementary | 0.6 mi | 90 | 72.0% | 90.8% | +2.1 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 57 | 76 | #1304 | 45.5% | 67.3% | 4.5% | 0.0% | -19.7pp |
| 2022 | 68 | 93 | #383 | 51.6% | 77.4% | 13.9% | 1.1% | -3.8pp |
| 2023 | 69 | 92 | #465 | 46.3% | 70.5% | 15.3% | 0.9% | +0.4pp |
| 2024 | 62 | 84 | #896 | 44.7% | 67.9% | 12.8% | 0.4% | +0.1pp |
| 2025 | 58 | 79 | #1203 | 42.5% | 67.5% | 15.8% | 1.5% | -20.6pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 4.3% | 12.9% | +8.6pp |
| Male | 4.3% | 17.7% | +13.4pp |
| Asian | 3.2% | 15.9% | +12.7pp |
| White | 0.0% | 8.3% | +8.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 7.3% | 32.3% | +25.0pp |
| Two or More Races | 2.4% | 2.4% | +0.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 8.6% | 30.5% | +21.9pp |
| English Learners | 4.0% | 13.7% | +9.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 9.1% | 39.7% | +30.6pp |
| All Students | 4.3% | 15.6% | +11.3pp |
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